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Poem of the Week: "Loosening the House" by Hadara Bar-Nadav

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Simone Muench

on June 19, 2008 5:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Hadara Bar-Nadav's book of poetry A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (MARGIE IntuiT House, 2007) was chosen by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the 2005 MARGIE Book Prize. Recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Verse, and other journals. Born in New York, she currently is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She lives in Kansas City, MO with her husband, the furniture designer Scott George Beattie.

Loosening the House

The typewriter is feminine in French.
I grow larger every day.

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Poem of the Week: selections from Figures for a Darkroom Voice by Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson

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Simone Muench

on May 23, 2008 12:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Figures for a Darkroom Voice was written by Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson with artwork by Noah Saterstrom , and published by Tarpaulin Sky in 2007. To read selections from Figures for a Darkroom Voice and bios, please hit continue.

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Poem of the Week: "Sleeping on the Edge of the Prairie" by Peggy Munson

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on May 12, 2008 5:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Peggy Munson's book Pathogenesis is out from Switchback Books, 2008. Munson is the author of the novel, Origami Striptease, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. She also edited the anthology, Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She has also been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, and Cottages at Hedgebrook. A native of Normal, IL, she now lives in Massachusetts.

Sleeping on the Edge of the Prairie

I am sure the panic grass has a language of gestures.
I am sure the wild horses of forced surrenders

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Poem of the Week: "This is a Story You Won't Tell the Kids We'll Never Have" by Melissa Severin

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Simone Muench

on April 14, 2008 1:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Melissa Severin lives in Chicago and works in search engine marketing. She earned her MFA in Poetry from New England College, and her poems have appeared in MoonLit, The Alembic, Seven Corners, 42opus, and The Cultural Society. She is also the managing editor of Switchback Books. Brute Fact, her chapbook, was released from dancing girl press, 2008.

This is a Story You Won't Tell the Kids We'll Never Have

Hood of your mouth
scraped with saguaro carcasses

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DvA Gallery presents

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Simone Muench

on April 2, 2008 11:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

1st Friday Poetry with
Brandi Homan
Daniel Borzutzky
Nina Corwin
Simone Muench

8:00 - 9:30 PM
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Free admission

DvA Gallery
2568 N. Lincoln

Interview with Tony Trigilio on his book The Lama's English Lessons

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Simone Muench

on April 1, 2008 4:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The following interview with Tony Trigilio about his book The Lama's English Lessons was conducted during March 2008 by Andrew Galligan.

Andrew Galligan: According to your bio, you've spent most of your life in two major American cities - Boston and Chicago. Much dissimilarity is apparent - how are they alike?

Tony Trigilio: Both cities are quite different, yes. At the same time, both are cities of neighborhoods. That is, in both cities your daily life can be characterized by the neighborhood in which you live, and each neighborhood has its own rich history. Both cities are hugely segregated; yet at the same time, you can find neighborhoods that are diverse like no other city except probably New York.

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Poem of the Week: "communion" by Margo Berdeshevsky

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Simone Muench

on March 31, 2008 8:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Margo Berdeshevsky was born in New York City in 1945; she was an actress; she has lived in Hawaii; she currently lives in Paris. But a Passage in Wilderness is her first poetry collection (Sheep Meadow Press, 2007). Her works have appeared in Agni, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New Letters, Poetry International, Runes, Siècle 21, Europe. Her Tsunami Notebook of poems and photographs followed a journey to Sumatra in Spring 2005, to work in a survivors' clinic in Aceh. A book of short fictions, Beautiful Soon Enough, and Vagrant, a poetic novel, wait at the gate. The cover art for But a Passage in Wilderness is one of her montages.

communion

Let us come into communion
The sea is sick of fish--randomly, it wants a god.

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Poem of the Week: "Story" by Yerra Sugarman

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Simone Muench

on March 24, 2008 11:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yerra Sugarman was born in Toronto, and lives in New York. She received the 2005 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry for her first collection, Forms of Gone, published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2002. Her second book, The Bag of Broken Glass, was also published by Sheep Meadow in 2008. Her poems and articles have appeared in ACM, The Nation, How2, Pleiades, Barrow Street, Verse Daily, and 100 Poets Against the War. She holds degrees in visual arts from Columbia and Concordia Universities and in writing from City College. She currently teaches poetry at Rutgers University and is Writer in Residence at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts.

Story

If it had only been a story

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Interview with Sean Singer on his book Discography

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Simone Muench

on March 4, 2008 7:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This interview with Sean Singer about his book Discography was conducted during the week of February 11th, 2008 by seven poets: Rachel Chamberlain, Vince Francone, Andrew Galligan, Joshua Lobb, Virginia Smith, Rose Woodson, and Nate Zoba.

Nate Zoba: When writing about a particular musician or music, do you listen to that musician or that type of music before writing, while writing, in rewriting, or all? How does the music affect the form of the poem, the rhyme scheme, and the meter? If the affect is significant, do you ever find that there is a point where it is best to work a poem without its subject's music playing? Does the music of the subject ever become too influential on the form of the poem?

Sean Singer: I listen to jazz obsessively, and was doing so when I wrote the poems in Discography, which was between 1995-2000. Also, I have nearly 1900 jazz CDs in my collection.

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Poem of the Week: "Zombie: 24 Hours In The Life Of" by Daniela Olszewska

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Simone Muench

on March 3, 2008 7:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Daniela Olszewska holds a BA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. Her poetry-related activities include serving on the Editorial Board of Columbia Poetry Review and acting as Editorial Assistant/Intern Coordinator for Switchback Books. Her poems have been/ will be published in Keep Going, Shampoo, Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks, and La Petite Zine. Her chapbook The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe was published by dancing girl press, 2008.

Zombie: 24 Hours In The Life Of

Green glow, eel glow. I wake up.
Obliterate all traces of breadcrumbs.

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